Citations:pour encourager les autres

English citations of pour encourager les autres

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1804, A Report of the Debate in the Imperial Parliament on Wednesday, March 7th, 1804 […], page 64:
The country has suffered severely, and somebody is to blame—somebody should be censured, if it were but pour encourager les autres.
1825, Harriette Wilson, Harriette Wilson’s Memoirs of Herself and Others, volume 2, page 107:
I do not recollect that any of us were very agreeable that night, though we talked a great deal. Hertford’s subject was death, pour encourager les autres.
1878, John Henry Gray, China: A History of the Laws, Manners, and Customs of Her People, volume 1, page 55:
The name of the prisoner and the nature of his offence are written on the cangue in large letters, “pour encourager les autres.”
1927 June, U. P. A., “L’Oiseau rouge”, in Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, volume 48, number 6, page 464:
Whenever trouble threatened, Avitabile hanged a few of the citizens from the walls of Government House pour encourager les autres; and when trouble did occur, he doubled the hangings and had a daily roster for suspension with a next-for-the-noose column.
1978 February 2, Donald Gould, “What price human dignity?”, in New Scientist, page 303:
It seems that, pour encourager les autres, a number of princesses of the blood royal were forced to witness the happening […]
2011 May 7, Roger Cohen, “Women Against the Hangman”, in The New York Times:
In college, her class was taken to see people Qaddafi had hanged — pour encourager les autres.
2014 April 25, Will Self, “Give the freedom of the city to our urban explorers”, in Evening Standard:
No doubt TfL feels it’s necessary to obtain a conviction pour encourager les autres.
2016 March 1, Nicholas Wright, “Can Britain's bureaucracy handle a Brexit?”, in The Guardian:
Indeed, some may wish to make withdrawal as painful as possible pour encourager les autres.
2023 March 25, Martin Vander Weyer, “Why was Credit Suisse allowed to linger for so long?”, in The Spectator:
‘Pour encourager les autres,’ I wrote 18 months ago, wouldn’t it be better ‘to move the depositors to a safer bank and close the repeat offender down’?
2023 July 1, Catherine Lough, “Genghis Khan ‘a Blairite before his time’”, in The Daily Telegraph:
He added jokingly: “So very inclusive, in fact, there were a couple of places where everybody was murdered and butchered, pour encourager les autres.”